{"id":37495,"date":"2013-09-09T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37495"},"modified":"2013-09-09T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:40:34","slug":"kerry-offers-syria-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37495","title":{"rendered":"Kerry offers Syria a deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, John Kerry offered Syria a deal in order to avoid a military strike. He told them that they have until the end of the week to turn over all of their chemical weapons to the international community and the US won’t make splodies at them, according to Stars & Stripes<\/a>. The Russians seemed amenable;<\/p>\n

Kerry told reporters in London early Monday that Assad could resolve the crisis surrounding the use of chemical weapons by surrendering control of “every single bit” of his arsenal to the international community by the end of the week.<\/p>\n

Hours later, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov promised to push its ally Syria to place its chemical weapons under international control and then dismantle them quickly to avert U.S. strikes. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem immediately embraced the proposal. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged acceptance.<\/p>\n

That seemed to raise prospects for avoiding an expansion of the Syrian civil war, and spokesmen said the administration would take a “hard look” at the proposal. But the matter was far from settled. The White House continued to build its case for action, with Obama taping six television network interviews for late Monday and administration officials briefing more members of Congress as they returned from summer recess. Obama will address the nation Tuesday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the White house is skeptical that Syria will comply quickly and completely, so they’re still going through the motions of preparing for war. The President is supposed to go on six networks to push his “punishment” solution. Kerry also made the impending attack seem more palatable by promising that it would be ” unbelievably small, limited kind of effort” accodring to Politico<\/a>;<\/p>\n

…Kerry\u2019s comments Monday caused even some of the president\u2019s strongest backers for military intervention to call the White House\u2019s outreach a disaster.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) strongly favors a strike on Syria, but criticized Kerry\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand what he means by that,\u201d Rogers said on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d on Monday. \u201cThis is part of the problem. That\u2019s a very confusing message \u2014 certainly a confusing message to me that he would offer that as somebody who believes this is in our national security interest.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, that’s what happens when you send out John Kerry, a known serial waffler, to define your foreign policy. The boy can barely speak English on a good day and now he’s the face and voice of American policy. Kerry and Hagel are such a clown act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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